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Installing new HD after crash:

davesodaveso Posts: 7,906
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My hard drive with DAZ Studio crashed. I need to reinstall DS, DIM, and some product files. I: tihnk I'm going to try to not install so much content this time. My DAZ Studio folder wias push 1 TB. 
Anyway, the question: My C: drive is my OS drive but some stuff from DS resides there as well. There is also a lot of stuff within the registry pertaining to the current DS and DIM install. 
If I install DIM and then download and install DS, will it all work without the content being in there as it was before? I know form previous reinstalls I've had to delete all the registry as well as every other tidbit of DS stuff everywhere on the system to get it to work properly. Should I need to do that?
 

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    I know I'm going to get bashed, but I would just download the manual installation files and install DS just like any other Windows program into a drive and folder of my choosing.

    I have never understood the 'need' for installing the content over and over again either, if the content library is intact anywhere in the system, just tell the location to DS, or move it where you want and then tell DS where it is. One may need to refresh the database, but that takes just a fraction of the time it takes to download and install everything again.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,906

    PerttiA said:

    I know I'm going to get bashed, but I would just download the manual installation files and install DS just like any other Windows program into a drive and folder of my choosing.

    I have never understood the 'need' for installing the content over and over again either, if the content library is intact anywhere in the system, just tell the location to DS, or move it where you want and then tell DS where it is. One may need to refresh the database, but that takes just a fraction of the time it takes to download and install everything again.

    i need to start over, but the registry and whatever gets installed on C" drive is still there. My D: drive where the prgrams and data reside crashed and that is no longer available.   

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    daveso said:

    PerttiA said:

    I know I'm going to get bashed, but I would just download the manual installation files and install DS just like any other Windows program into a drive and folder of my choosing.

    I have never understood the 'need' for installing the content over and over again either, if the content library is intact anywhere in the system, just tell the location to DS, or move it where you want and then tell DS where it is. One may need to refresh the database, but that takes just a fraction of the time it takes to download and install everything again.

    i need to start over, but the registry and whatever gets installed on C" drive is still there. My D: drive where the prgrams and data reside crashed and that is no longer available.   

    When you do a manual installation, DS will suggest a location for installing, which it reads from the registry, but you can change that path if you want after which the installation process will update the registry with the new values. 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited January 2022

    Even though your old D: drive is no longer available, that doesn't mean that you cannot have a D: drive, just make one of your other drives or a new drive your new D: drive in Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management

    Edit; And if you got everything out of the failed drive and stored it as it was to another drive, you can make that other drive your new D: drive and you wouldn't need to reinstall anything.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,894

    The old drive was lost entirely - it would have been better to keep this in the same thread so people could see that.

    The list of installations is not in the registry, it is in the manifests folder - assuming that was n't chnaged it's in Public Documents, in the Install manager folder then Manifests. You could delete that, but I'd unisntall the application and its plug-ins/sahders first, or you could just "uninstall" everything through DIM and then reinstall.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The list of installations is not in the registry, it is in the manifests folder - assuming that was n't chnaged it's in Public Documents, in the Install manager folder then Manifests. 

    Probably if you use DIM, but with manual installation, there is no manifest folder and DS gets the installation path from the registry.

    But in this case, the best course of action, is to make the drive where the files from the failed one were copied to, the new D-drive and try if everything works as before without any reinstallations.

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